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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
outer part of apical patch of fore-iving more or less tinged with pinkish- 
creamy, irrorated {and in parts shortly striolated) with grey ; in hind- 
wing a more or less conspicuous fuscous or dusky longitudinal ray along 
disco-celhdar fold to a little hefore hind margin ; in fore-wing the inner- 
marginal streak is usually represented by a greyish mark at base and 
a faint discal spot, but is sometimes wanting altogether. 
^ Under-side colour duller than in and more closely and generally 
hatched and irrorated in hind-vnng, so that disco -cellular dusky ray 
is less distinct or sometimes hardly distinguishable ; costal and discal 
markings of hind-wing also diffused, and not, or but little, red-tinged. 
{Hah. — North of Cape Colony, Western Basutoland, Griqu aland 
West, Transvaal, Eastern Tropical Interior, and Damaraland.) 
I was enabled by the kindness of Mr. Chr. Aurivillius to examine 
a type specimen of his Deidamioides^ a ^ in which the disco-cellular 
ray of the under side of the hind-wings was not very marked. In the 
South- African Museum and in my own collection there are several 
Transvaal ^ s in which the under-side colouring is intermediate between 
this variety and the typical Evenina $. Casta of Gerstiicker, founded 
on a single $ from Lake Jipe in East Africa, in some respects is very 
near Dcidamioides, but the white under side of the hind-wings is quite 
like that of Evenina and I do not think that it can be separated 
from the latter. The South- African Museum possesses three unusually 
small ^ s of the variety from Damaraland, expanding only i in, 7 lin. 
across the wings; and some still smaller ^s (exp. al. I in. 4—5 lin.) 
and a ^ {cxp. ad. I in. 5 lin.) were captured in Namaqualand by Mr. 
L. Peringuey. The pinkish tint of the under side of the hind-wings 
is faint in these dwarfed examples, and its irroration sparse and 
limited. 
Evenina $ is highly variable both in size and markings. The 
largest and most strongly marked specimens I have seen are two^ taken 
by Mr. J. L. Fry at Tati on 8th January 1887, — the black borders, 
stripes, and spots being throughout larger and darker, especially the inner- 
marginal stripe of the fore-wings, and the hind-marginal spots of the 
hind-wings. The smallest and most faintly marked (excluding the 
Variety A.) are from Bechuanaland and Damaraland. The colour of 
the apical patch is very near that shown by the European Anthocharis 
Cardamines $, but in fine examples exhibits a slight pink gloss. 
Evenina $ varies very much less than the and chiefly in the extent 
and intensity of the basal and hind-marginal blackish of the hind- 
wings. Two $ s from Tati which accompanied the $ s just mentioned are, 
however, remarkable for the corresponding great development of its dark 
1 Another specimen is rather below the average size, and distinctly but not heavily 
marked ; while two others hold an intermediate position, but are rather larger than the 
average. I have examined the types of Swinhoe's Sipylus from Zanzibar in the British 
Museum. The i is inseparable from the larger darker specimens of $ Evenina just men- 
tioned, though it is somewhat more heavily marked ; while the ? is plainly referable to 
Qdvisa, Wallengr. 
